Baker: Big climb still ahead for MBTA

Baker: Big climb still ahead for MBTA

BOSTON — Improvements at the MBTA are moving the transit system "in the right direction," Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday, but an "enormously significant climb" remains ahead.

Speaking at a Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation forum exploring the future needs of the state's transportation infrastructure, Baker reiterated his call for a focus on the T's "core system" to create a "reliable, predictable and dependable product" for riders.

Lawsuits may offer fodder for Trump, Clinton attack ads
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Lawsuits may offer fodder for Trump, Clinton attack ads

Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both trying to prevent the public release of videos that are critical to legal cases involving the candidates.

Trump's lawyers are intensifying efforts to stop the release of video of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee testifying under oath in a fraud lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University. They told a federal judge in San Diego late Wednesday that the video could be used by the media and Trump's opponents during the presidential campaign.

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